Definitions:
answer with no more than a single sentence 5 of the 6 definitions.

Short
Answer: The questions should be answered with several sentences (no more than a
short paragraph). You must answer four of the six questions.

Longer
Answer: This should be at least 2 paragraphs, and indicate understanding of the
procedures and concepts involved.

Note
that on both the definitions and short answer you have a choice of which
questions to answer.

Definitions:
Define 6 of the following 8 terms with one or two complete sentences.

·Raster:

·Soft
money:

·Lossless compression:

·DEM:

·
Datum:

·ONR:

·Refereeing:

Short
Answer. Answer 5 of the 6 short answer questions on this and the following
pages.

1.What is the purpose of a map projection, and why is this a non-trivial
task?Use the projection
below to illustrate the challenge.

2.Why did you join the AGU?Why
do they provide a special rate for students, and how does that fit into their
overall mission?

3.What is the difference between ONR and NRL, and which more closely
resembles NSF?Why

4.What is required to move data from one computer program to another, and
why would you want to use more than one program?Provide concrete examples.

5.Why are publications and presentations important in science?

6.What would be the difference between a median and a smoothing filter?What should you consider before using either?

Longer
Answer. Answer this question.

You
have been tasked to organize the data holdings from YP686 over the past decade.Discuss how you could accomplish this task, to make the data more
accessible for other students doing exercises like we did with the salinity at
station 11.How could we get the
computer to assist in tasks like that?Be
specific and consider what you would have to do to organize the data.